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Program Results Reports describe RWJF’s interest in the area and strategy for addressing the problem for those working in the field or interested in undertaking similar efforts. They explain the problem addressed; the activities undertaken; the results or findings from the work; lessons for the field; any post-grant activities—by the grantee or RWJF—and they include a bibliography of material produced during the project or program.

Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA) aimed to improve long-term care and supportive systems for vulnerable older adults by fostering collaborative partnerships and building community capacity.

The University of Michigan conducted development and evaluation work on the Michigan Managed Long-Term Care Initiative, which allows eligible adults to receive Medicaid-covered services in their homes.

Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.

Victor R. Fuchs studied the factors that affect health care expenditures and health and policy solutions for covering the uninsured and reducing the high cost of health care, resulting in more than 50 publications.

The Health Insurance Reform Project worked with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help design a program to improve the quality of care and life for people with multiple chronic illnesses.